LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Couch Adams	Astronomer	5-Jun-1819	21-Jan-1892	Discovered planet Neptune
Prince Albert	Royalty	26-Aug-1819	14-Dec-1861	Royal Consort of Queen Victoria
The Báb	Religion	20-Oct-1819	9-Jul-1850	Forerunner of Baha'i
Preston S. Brooks	Politician	5-Aug-1819	27-Jan-1857	Beat Charles Sumner with a cane
Gustave Courbet	Painter	10-Jun-1819	31-Dec-1877	French Realist painter
Francesco Crispi	Head of State	4-Oct-1819	12-Aug-1901	Sicilian patriot, Italian premier
Abner Doubleday	Military	26-Jun-1819	26-Jan-1893	Didn't invent baseball
George Eliot	Novelist	22-Nov-1819	22-Dec-1880	Silas Marner
Cyrus W. Field	Business	30-Nov-1819	12-Jul-1892	First Transatlantic cable
Theodor Fontane	Author	30-Dec-1819	20-Sep-1898	Before the Storm
Léon Foucault	Physicist	19-Sep-1819	11-Feb-1868	Measured the speed of light
John White Geary	Politician	30-Dec-1819	8-Feb-1873	Governor of Kansas and Pennsylvania
Sir Charles Hallé	Pianist	11-Apr-1819	25-Oct-1895	Founder, Hallé Orchestra
Thomas Andrews Hendricks	Politician	7-Sep-1819	25-Nov-1885	Grover Cleveland's Vice President
Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst	Head of State	31-Mar-1819	6-Jul-1901	German Chancellor, 1894-1900
Elias Howe	Inventor	9-Jul-1819	3-Oct-1867	Inventor of the sewing machine
Julia Ward Howe	Activist	27-May-1819	17-Oct-1910	Battle Hymn of the Republic
Jonathan Homer Lane	Astronomer	9-Aug-1819	3-May-1880	Gravitational equilibrium of the Sun
James Russell Lowell	Author	22-Feb-1819	12-Aug-1891	The Biglow Papers
Herman Melville	Author	1-Aug-1819	28-Sep-1891	Moby Dick
Emperor Norton	Royalty	14-Feb-1819	8-Jan-1880	Emperor of the United States, Protector of Mexico
Jacques Offenbach	Composer	20-Jun-1819	5-Oct-1880	Inventor of the the opérette
Felice Orsini	Assassin	1819	13-Mar-1858	Attempted assassin of Napoleon III
Allan Pinkerton	Business	25-Aug-1819	1-Jul-1884	Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Lydia Pinkham	Business	9-Feb-1819	17-May-1883	Herbal supplements for "ladies' problems"
William S. Rosecrans	Military	6-Sep-1819	11-Mar-1898	Union Army General
John Ruskin	Critic	8-Feb-1819	20-Jan-1900	Greatest Victorian art critic
Clara Schumann	Pianist	13-Sep-1819	20-May-1896	Romantic pianist and composer
Joseph Scriven	Songwriter	10-Sep-1819	10-Aug-1886	What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Christopher Sholes	Inventor	14-Feb-1819	17-Feb-1890	Typewriter inventor, QWERTY keyboard
William Still	Activist	7-Oct-1819	14-Jul-1902	Father of the Underground Railroad
George Gabriel Stokes	Physicist	13-Aug-1819	1-Feb-1903	Fluid dynamicist, optic waves
William Wetmore Story	Sculptor	12-Feb-1819	7-Oct-1895	Cleopatra
Otto Wilhelm Struve	Astronomer	7-May-1819	14-Apr-1905	Studied double stars
Sir Henry Tate	Philanthropist	1819	5-Dec-1899	Bequeathed the Tate Gallery
Tantia Topi	Military	c. 1819	18-Apr-1859	Indian Mutiny rebel leader
Queen Victoria	Royalty	24-May-1819	22-Jan-1901	Longest-reigning British monarch
William A. Wheeler	Politician	30-Jun-1819	4-Jun-1887	Vice President under Hayes
Walt Whitman	Poet	31-May-1819	26-Mar-1892	Leaves of Grass

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